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Checklist for the Serious Startup Shop

A reader following our coverage of micromachining recently had the idea that this focus might enable him open a particularly compact startup shop. He asked our online micromachining expert, John Bradford, what a shop such as this would need. John’s reply is the best checklist for starting a CNC job shop that I have seen. Here are two points I find significant:

The machine tool is not close to being the top item on the list.

The list includes not only hardware and software, but also planning and marketing.

Setting out to offer a guide for micromachining, John ended up producing a useful checklist for pursuing general, high-value machining work. Read the list here.

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